Yesterday I was lucky enough to see Edward Tufte speak in the gorgeous surroundings of the Royal Geographic Society in London. The talk was based around his most recent work Beautiful Evidence and his theories around information presentation, including of course an examination of Charles Joseph Minard’s famous flow map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign (of which […]
What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow my babbling on Twitter
- See my photography on Flickr
- What I’m listening to via Last.fm
- Recently bookmarked on Pinboard
Recent photos on flickr
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